Genetic Engineering Resource List

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The Nature Institute
Provides commentaries on new developments in genetics
and genetic engineering, with an emphasis on the broader organismic,
ecological and social contexts and implications. www.natureinstitute.org

New York Public Interest Research Group
Campus-based GE activism and lobbying for five year moratorium on planting of GE crops in NY state. For more info call 518-436-0876 or visit www.nypirg.org

New York Biotech Action Network
For GE news and activism info in NYC and satewide. Call Andy Zimmerman at 914-478-8639 or email turtle@westnet.com. Subscribe to the NYBAN electronic newsletter.

No Spray Coalition
Campain to stop massive spraying of pesticides for so-called West-Nile Virus
visit www.nospray.org

Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn
Current focus is a letter writing campaign to flood NY Senator Charles Schumer with letters asking him to support legislation requiring mandatory labeling of GE foods. Email Paul Bermanzohn at bermanzo@aecom.yu.edu

SOS Food
Supermarket campaign in NYC, public outreach, educational events, demonstrations. Circulating petitions to require testing, labeling and a moratorium on GE foods. Pressuring Food Emporium supermarkets to remove GE ingredients from their house brands and to phase out selling GE foods. SOS Food.org, 212-677-1863 or email sosfood@sixthstreetcenter.org

Northeast Resistance against Genetic Engineering (NERAGE)
For regional activism, events, and info visit www.nerage.org

Just Food
For community supported agriculture, buy a seasonal share in a local farm 212-645-9880 or visit www.justfood.org

Friends of the Earth and Organic Consumers Association
Frankenfoods 15 campaign, targeting 15 major food brands to eliminate GE ingredients in their products. Call 202-783-7400 or visit www.foe.org or OCA at above contacts.

GE Food Alert
Center for Food Safety, Friend of the Earth, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, National Environmental Trust, Organic Consumers Association, Pesticide Action Network North America and the State PIRGs. Joint campaign demanding GE foods not be sold unless independent safety testing demonstrates they have no harmful effects on human health or the environment; they are labeled to ensure the consumers right-to-know; and the biotechnology corporations that manufacture them are held responsible for any harm. Visit www.gefoodalert.org

Greenpeace
True Food Campaign. 1-800-326-0959 or www.truefoodnow.org. Featuring list of thousands of foods containing GE ingredients, and alternatives that don’t. Corporate campaigns against Kellogg’s and many other resources for action.

Center for Food Safety
Campaign to stop FDA approval of genetically engineered salmon, which are ready to be marketed. Call 202-547-9359 or visit www.foodsafetynow.org

Organic Consumers Association
Food Agenda 2000 Petition to eliminate GE foods and crops, phase-out industrial agriculture and convert US agriculture to 30% organic by the year 2010. call 218-226-4164 or visit www.organicconsumers.org

People’s Earth Network
Letter writing campaign pressuring health food companies and grocery stores to adopt a GE-free policy. Call 617-491-7646 or visit www.peoplesearth.org

The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
Focused on legislation to label GE foods. How to contact your representatives, corporations and the media about GE. Sample letters. Call 425-771-4049 or visit www.thecampaign.org

(selected: refer to The Video Project or Bullfrog Films below for more):

Gene Blues: Dilemmas of DNA Testing. Moving Images Video Project. Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young. 30 minutes. Bullfrog Films, tel. 1-800-543-FROG.

Risky Business: Biotechnology and Agriculture. Moving Images Video Project. Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young, Producers. 24 minutes. Bullfrog Films, tel. 1-800-543-FROG.

Against the Grain: Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover of Your Food. Britt Bailey, Producer and Marc Lappe, Writer. 13 minutes. The Video Project, tel. 1-800-4-PLANET.